California BBC The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences is to allow all of its members to vote in the documentary shorts and foreign language film categories. Previously, members had to see the nominees in cinemas to be eligible to vote in the final round of balloting. However, DVDs ...

TILDA Swinton’s latest performance is putting even her to sleep. The Academy Award-winning actress is sleeping in a fitted glass box at New York’s Museum of Modern Art this month, fully exposing herself to the public during perhaps one of the most intimate human moments.Museum goers are ...

JENNIFER Lawrence loves Photoshop ‘’more than anything in the world’’.The ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ actress - who won a Best Actress Oscar on Sunday (24.02.13) - says she looks nothing like the pictures of her in the new Miss Dior handbag campaign in real life ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Quvenzhane Wallis, fresh from the Oscars spotlight as the youngest ever best actress nominee, is to play “Annie” in a Tinseltown remake of the hit Broadway musical, filmmakers said.The nine-year-old, who drew praise for her amazingly mature performance in ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The 2013 Oscars show will include a tribute to the James Bond movie franchise, celebrating its 50th anniversary with the record-breaking blockbuster “Skyfall,” organizers said.Over the decades a number of 007 films have been nominated for the coveted golden ...

HOLLYWOOD (BBC) The nominations for next year’s Academy Awards will be revealed two weeks earlier than this year’s were. The 2013 nominees will be unveiled on 10 January - five days earlier than normal and three days ahead of the Golden Globes. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP)Hal David, an Oscar- and Grammy-winning lyricist who produced dozens of hit songs with composer Burt Bacharach, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 91. David died of complications from a stroke, according to Jim Steinblatt, spokesman for the American Society of Composers, Authors ...

LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm - who was the original girl who couldn’t say no in the musical “Oklahoma!” - has died aged 95, her family and reports said. Holm, who won the best supporting actress Academy Award in 1948 for “Gentlemen’s ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) Veteran actor Ernest Borgnine, the star of dozens of films and television shows who won an Oscar for his portrayal of a shy butcher in love in “Marty,” died Sunday, his manager said. He was 95. “It’s a very sad day. The industry has lost someone great, the ...

Pakistan’s first ever Oscar winner, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy arrived Saturday at Jinnah international airport, Karachi.She was greeted with cheer and warmth as she walked out of the airport. The Pakistani born and raised Charmeen won her first Oscar for her documentary “Saving Face”, ...

Oscar Award Winner Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy who arrived in Karachi early Saturday morning from the United States has said it was an incredible feeling to win the first ever Oscar award for the country.Sharing her feelings of winning the Oscar award at a news conference here in Karachi‚ she said ...

Well, Pakistan has won an Oscar. As part of the usual rite and ritual, a major hype was created by our most vibrant electronic media. There was an instant barrage of congratulatory messages by our politicians. The event was hailed as a huge achievement and something to be celebrated nationwide. ...

NEW YORK - When Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy proudly held high the Oscar statuette won for her documentary ‘Saving Face’ last Sunday, not many noticed the Pakistan flag she displayed at that exciting moment.The bespoke cuff Ms. Obaid-Chinoy wore on her right wrist had the national ...

MUZAFFARGARH - “It really hurt me, if I hear about the acid-throwing incident happen anywhere in the world. So, the win of an Oscar by ‘Saving Face’, truly made my happy, says 26-year-old Rukhsana Yasir, the pivotal character of Academy award-winning documentary, while talking to ...

LOS ANGELES - Fifteen Oscar statuettes have sold for a total of $3 million at an online auction, the most money made from a single collection of Oscars in a sale by bid, organizers said on Wednesday. Los Angeles auctioneer Nate D. Sanders said the hot seller of the collection was Herman ...

KARCHI - The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday paid tribute to Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, an Oscar award-winning Pakistani documentary filmmaker. The lawmakers, especially women MPAs while delivering speeches on a resolution, congratulating Sharmeen Chinoy, terming her winning of Oscar award as a big ...

KARACHI  - Pakistan’s first Oscar winner launched a campaign on Tuesday, hoping that her documentary about survivors of acid attacks can help eliminate a crime that disfigures hundreds of women each year.Pictures of 33-year-old Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy collecting her award in the short ...

HOLLYWOOD, Feb 26, 2012  - The Johnny Depp-voiced “Rango,” an adventure about a colorful chameleon helping a parched desert village to find water, won the best animated feature Oscar on Sunday.The film beat “Kung Fu Panda 2,” “Puss in Boots,” France’s ...

HOLLYWOOD  - Silent movie “The Artist” crowned its spectacular awards season success by winning five Oscars including the coveted Best Picture prize at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday.The French-directed black-and-white movie earned Oscars for best director for Michel ...

NEW YORK - Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy blazed onto world stage when her documentary "Saving Face" about acid attack victims won an Oscar award at the lavish Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood that is certain to help improve Pakistan's battered international image.Actresses Rose ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has announced conferring a high Civil Award for Ms. Sharmeen Chinoy on winning Oscar Award for her documentary film. Pakistani filmmaker and first-time Oscar nominee Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won the Academy Award for her documentary film ‘Saving Face’ ...

LOS ANGELES Sacha Baron Cohen has threatened Academy Award “zionists” with “unimaginable consequences” if they ban him from Sunday’s Oscars, in a spoof riposte to a warning against staging a publicity stunt. In full regalia as the military dictator from his latest ...

TEHRAN - The Iranian film “A Separation” which is vying for an Oscar at the US Academy Awards, is a “universal” tale that resonates strongly with foreign audiences, its lead actor told AFP on Wednesday. The movie’s international popularity — evidenced by multiple ...

MEXICO CITY - Mexican actor Demian Bichir hopes his surprise Oscar nod for “A Better Life” will raise awareness about the 11 million undocumented migrants in the United States.Though little-known north of the border, the Mexican star beat out Leonardo DiCaprio and Ryan Gosling for the ...

MARTIN Scorsese’s 3D epic adventure film Hugo leads the charge at this year’s Academy Awards with 11 nods.The movie was nominated for best film, along with War Horse, The Artist, Moneyball, The Tree Of Life, Midnight In Paris, The Help and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.Meryl ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday sent out Oscar ballots to its members, who will select the nominees for Hollywood’s top film honours. The academy’s 5,783 voting members must cast their ballots by January 13 to determine the Oscar ...

THE Oscar awarded to Orson Welles for writing Citizen Kane is to be auctioned in Los Angeles later this month. The gold statuette, which Welles won for best screenplay in 1942, is expected to fetch up to $1m (642,000). Despite some tarnishing on the legs, the Oscar is overall in very good ...

LONDON (Reuters) Australian actress Diane Cilento, nominated for an Oscar in the 1960s for her role in "Tom Jones" and ex-wife of James Bond star Sean Connery, has died after a long illness, local media reported on Friday. She was 78. She died at the Cairns Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Woody Harrelson is winning praise for an intense performance as dirty cop in Rampart, but the former Cheers star is trying hard not to dwell on the prospect of a third Oscar nomination. Its always nice to get an invite to the party, but we cant count on those things, he told ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - And they're off. And it's The King's Speech in the lead. No, wait, it's The Social Network by a nose. Hold on, The Fighter is coming up fast on the inside track. As the 2010 awards race turns into the backstretch - the fall film festivals have come and gone, Golden Globe, ...